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Assaad Razzouk

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Book: Saving the Planet Without the Bull, https://linktr.ee/savingtheplanetbook. Podcast: Angry Clean Energy Guy. Climate and CleanEnergy from the front lines

Imports of solar panels from China into Africa are up 60% over the year to June. Never bet against solar: Its rapid, exponential growth is driving a fundamental energy transformation worldwide, moving faster than you think ft.com/content/35bb88…

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Imports of solar panels from China into Africa are up 60% over the year to June. Never bet against solar: Its rapid, exponential growth is driving a fundamental energy transformation worldwide, moving faster than you think

ft.com/content/35bb88…
AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Imports of solar panels from China into Africa are up 60% over the year to June. Never bet against solar: Its rapid, exponential growth is driving a fundamental energy transformation worldwide, moving faster than you think

ft.com/content/35bb88…
AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Imports of solar panels from China into Africa are up 60% over the year to June. Never bet against solar: Its rapid, exponential growth is driving a fundamental energy transformation worldwide, moving faster than you think

ft.com/content/35bb88…
AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Imports of solar panels from China into Africa are up 60% over the year to June. Never bet against solar: Its rapid, exponential growth is driving a fundamental energy transformation worldwide, moving faster than you think

ft.com/content/35bb88…

While US households suffer from spiking electricity costs because of the AI tsunami, the government is busy making sure electricity prices rise faster, climate risks increase and citizens' health deteriorates further: "US moves to cancel one of the world’s largest solar farms -…

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. While US households suffer from spiking electricity costs because of the AI tsunami, the government is busy making sure electricity prices rise faster, climate risks increase and citizens' health deteriorates further:

"US moves to cancel one of the world’s largest solar farms -…

EV market share, Top 10 countries (% of new car sales, latest data available) 1 Norway 98.4% 2 Nepal 76% 3 Denmark 67% 4 Ethiopia 60% 5 Sweden 59% 6 Netherlands 55% 7 China 55.0 8 Finland 45.6% 9 Singapore 43.5% 10 Belgium 41%

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. EV market share, Top 10 countries (% of new car sales, latest data available)

1 Norway 98.4%
2 Nepal 76%
3 Denmark 67%
4 Ethiopia 60%
5 Sweden 59%
6 Netherlands 55%
7 China 55.0
8 Finland 45.6%
9 Singapore 43.5%
10 Belgium 41%

Rapid growth of solar continues unabated: Solar capacity additions of 380GW are 64% more than the 232 GW added in the same period last year, a record pace With batteries that provide power throughout the night, fossils are rapidly on their way out ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Rapid growth of solar continues unabated: Solar capacity additions of 380GW are 64% more than the 232 GW added in the same period last year, a record pace

With batteries that provide power throughout the night, fossils are rapidly on their way out

ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Historic: Coal has been the dominant fuel source for electricity generation worldwide since the early 20th century. This era is forever over: Renewables overtook coal in the electricity mix for the first time on record 34.3% to 33.1% ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Historic: Coal has been the dominant fuel source for electricity generation worldwide since the early 20th century. This era is forever over: Renewables overtook coal in the electricity mix for the first time on record 34.3% to 33.1%

ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

Greta Thunberg is braver, more principled and has a stronger moral fibre than many of the world's elected and unelected leaders

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Greta Thunberg is braver, more principled and has a stronger moral fibre than many of the world's elected and unelected leaders
AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Greta Thunberg is braver, more principled and has a stronger moral fibre than many of the world's elected and unelected leaders

The "Net Zero Banking Alliance" is no more: good riddance "A climate alliance of top global banks has folded some four years since its launch after its members encountered political pressure and failed to meet the objectives it had ambitiously set out" There is a pervasive…


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The people on the flotilla are the best of us.


The future is taking shape, now 1 Solar tops EU power in June with record 22% share 2 Renewables supplied 54% of net power 3 Denmark recorded the highest share of renewable electricity at 94.7%, followed by Latvia at 93.4%, Austria at 91.8%, Croatia at 89.5%, and Portugal at…

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. The future is taking shape, now
1 Solar tops EU power in June with record 22% share
2 Renewables supplied 54% of net power
3 Denmark recorded the highest share of renewable electricity at 94.7%, followed by Latvia at 93.4%, Austria at 91.8%, Croatia at 89.5%, and Portugal at…

China's market share of manufacturing capacity (2024) >88% of solar modules, cells, wafers and polysilicon >88% of lithium-ion batteries >75% of battery metals lithium, cobalt and nickel >72% of wind nacelles and 60% of wind blades >53% of hydrogen electrolyzers

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. China's market share of manufacturing capacity (2024)
>88% of solar modules, cells, wafers and polysilicon
>88% of lithium-ion batteries
>75% of battery metals lithium, cobalt and nickel
>72% of wind nacelles and 60% of wind blades
>53% of hydrogen electrolyzers

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI alone have collectively announced $800b in commitments for new data centers in 2025. Meanwhile, US electricity prices are rising fast, up 35% since 2022 Electricity is AI's Achilles heel: nuclear will take 20 years to deliver, gas…

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI alone have collectively announced $800b in commitments for new data centers in 2025. Meanwhile, US electricity prices are rising fast, up 35% since 2022

Electricity is AI's Achilles heel: nuclear will take 20 years to deliver, gas…

Just out: "Seven out of 9 Planetary Boundaries have been breached, with all 7 showing trends of increasing pressure" In English: we humans have irreversibly damaged our life support system on Earth, and it's going to get worse on current trends planetaryhealthcheck.org/#reports-secti…

AssaadRazzouk's tweet image. Just out: "Seven out of 9 Planetary Boundaries have been breached, with all 7 showing trends of increasing pressure"

In English: we humans have irreversibly damaged our life support system on Earth, and it's going to get worse on current trends

planetaryhealthcheck.org/#reports-secti…

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